Patrick Canning 🇨🇦

In Search of A Better World A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights ...

I started reading this a few weeks ago, by Iranian-Canadian lawyer and professor Payam Akhavan. He was lawyer at the ICTY and ICC, and other tribunals. His story is the human side of atrocity, Iranian history, and war crimes trials.

I don't think I could have picked a more apt book for today.

Whoever's keeping records for all the future trials of these maniacs better hire more staff.

"warrior ethos" loser hegseth.

everyone needs a purpose in life! :)

well, he was PM, and we named him, we named everybody. I litigate against oil and gas projects, among other things.

Yes! Exactly this!

I'm sick of economists and business people making crucial decisions. I want @votetanille.bsky.social as our Prime Minister. A social worker.

I want a government of social workers, teachers, doctors, electricians and yes, bartenders.

#cdnpoli

I'll add a few lawyers wouldn't hurt. Some are less evil than others, and they understand how the system works - like not only that invading other countries is unlawful, but why.

Just like with covid, it's another excuse to jack prices on everything.

PM Carney: Canada's support for US striking Iran came with regret

He's a reluctant imperialist you see

I maintain that the removal of Trudeau (whom I didn't like, and litigated against) - was an Op.

Another one for the block!

The racism and ethnocentricity of the white western world knows virtually no bounds.

This is how the world sees Canada's PM:

The facts on excuse #1, "to stop Iran from getting nukes":

Under the UN Charter attacking another country is unlawful (Art 2(4)), but defending yourself with force is lawful (Art 51).

Wanting an economist as head of state is the ultimate in neoliberalism - the assumption that managing money is the same skill as managing a nation.
It isn't.

Carney's "economist" view of the law (like Harper's): the law is a bunch of arbitrary rules made up by people who "don't know how things really get done."

This coming from members of a made-up profession that thinks human suffering is an "externality."

Gen Z - you do not want the Shawnigan Handshake, I'll tell ya now.

I cannot underscore how much Millennials (your biggest voting blocks) do not support this war in Iran.

everyone who can read knows there are no nukes, nor were they close to nukes.

The centrist world spent 23 years admitting Iraq was a mistake, but now "let's do it again"

How OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY is going so far:

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This is great.

As I wrote in the Globe a few weeks ago, all public officials -- and municipalities, too -- should leave X.

The world welcomes her exit. Cricket's revenge is just beginning.

I've used both but will switch to VP Harris, you're right, it's pretty fing easy. USA wouldn't be bombing Iran right now, that's for sure.

Throw away the rudder, Canada, throw away the rudder..

The hypnosis is real. Carney fans are just as impervious to logic and facts as trump's maga

Carney supports Operation Epstein.

And Canada supports Operation Epstein.
Canadians took to the streets over Iraq, I sure did. Maybe it's time to do it again..